Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-10-30

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, ovens at BlocktOn, Ala.
A Virginia zinc mine company is work
ing an eight-fOot zinc vein of unknow
depth at profit of $12 per ton.
The opening of the Pittsburp and LAX
E.rie railroad shops at CHARTERS will occu
Saturday, October %.
During the past twelve months ; $50.
69l barrels of flour were shipped from
Minneapolis by seven railroads.
The Fort Payne Coal and Coke Com
pany, Fort Payne, Ala, are now sinkin,
shafts in their coal lands.
England recognizes that the custom o
the German manufacturers working OF
Sunday Is putting it toa disadvantage.
\ South Carolina textile mill has or
deTed machiuery to he used in manufactur
ing very tiue quality dress ginghams out o
their own yarn.
At the Pennsylvania Steel Works, Steel
ton, the new annealing furnace erected in
front OF the open hearth furnaces is com.
pleted and ready for operations.
The works of the Henderson Steel and
Manufacturing Company, Birmingham,
Ala, are expected to be in running order
within several weeks.
Throughout the potteries East and West
there is q development of talent, and finer
work is being produced, although as yet
the market for il is very limited.
In New York the building operations so
tar this year foot up $4,000, 600, as
against $49, 600, 600 for the same time last
year, and S36, 0OO, 600 for the same time in
| 1885.
The work of getting the Stewart Iron
Co furnace No. ,, at Sharon, ready 10
| blow in as soon as possible is going on
steadily. The salamander is now being
broken mp by blasting.
Soap manufacturers in Cincinnati who
run on the protit-sharing plan have just
divided SOS, 900 among their workmen for
the past six months. The highest share to
a single workman was $40.
The manufacturers of all kinds of glass
expect little sharper competition next
year on account of great increase of man
utacturing capacity. They say, however,
that prices cannot legitimately decline.
\ pair of steel slab shears thai will shear
slabs ten inches thick, have just been COM
pleted in England. They are the heaviest
ones ever made. O0e steel mill has this
gear sent 1000 basic steel slabs to the
United States.
The owners OF the wire mill at Wampum
proposes to put the mill and machinery in
as stock in company at $4,000, and re-
remove it to New Castle, provided addi-
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subscribed and ground donated for the To-
cation.
The proprietOrs OF the Baldwin loComO-
tive works, Philadelphia, report that the
business of that establishment was never
greater than now, and that they expect to
exceed last years capacity in 1887 by 100
locomotives, which will be at the rate OF
fifteen locomotives per week. They are
employing 2,7OO hands.
The shipments for September by the
Tracy City division OF the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railroad Company were: Coal,
IL, 80 tons; coke, 10Th tons; total,
u, 421 tons. For the year from January
first: Coal, 12O, 1872 tons; coke, Hoo
tons; total, 23i, SOP tons There was fully
a. much coke stocked IN the yards rs there
was shipped in September.
Labor organizations are increasing stead
ily. The Federation OF Labor is gaining
ground quietly, and is increasing member
ship faster now than the Knights of La
Dor. There are no fictiOnal disturbances,
no complaints about assessments, no in
reference of central authority with local,
hut general harmony prevails between the
various branches OF the federation.
Johnstown Tribune: The question as to
where the new works of the Johnson Steel
Street Rail Co. are TO be located is under
stood TO be practically settled, the Fcank-
lin borough site having been decided upon.
The ground is being surveyed and stakes
driven, and the construction Of the build
lnys will probably ne commenced in short
time
The property formerly owned by W. ".
Whitley, and known "a the Champion Iron
and Steel Works, at Springfield, o, has
| been organized under the name OF the
Champion Steel and Iron Company, with a
capital stock otSlOO,G0O The new coU-
pany proposes 20 vigorously push the
manufacture OF its new brand Of Champion
STEEL lit AbllAhE nun - ~" A"NaA'hifN W
it, full capacity, making ali kinds ct tin
Ished steel and iron, and expects shortly to
commence double turn
PitIsburg and vicinity has twenty blast
furnaces: IS rolling mills; % steel works;
, plate glass works, besides one building
and two contemplated; Il window glass
| works; 81 flint glass works; IL green glass
works: total number of glass works in the
Pittsburg district, 66. The annual capa-
CITY of the blast furnaces is 900, 0n0 tons;
rolling mills, annual production, 575, coo
tons; steel works, 100, ODO tons; plate glass
annual capacity Of works built and build
ing, 3, go, 600 square feet; window glass
works, annual capacity, 900, boxes;
flint glass works, Ga furnaces; green glass
works, IL furnaces.
The Linden Steel Company, Of Pitts
bury, has used the aluminium alloy ofirOn
to free their ingOts OF pipes and blow-hOleS,
aad their success has been sufficient to in
ducc them to experiment further, hut not
enough to say that it frees the ingots OF
| blow holes and pipes entirely. Their eN-
periments have been mainly IN another dl-
| rectlon than castings, believing and find
| ing that the alloy not only has its effect on
the Gas pores, but on the physical proper
| ties of the ingot-bOth favorable, hut not
80 much so as to induce them to use or ad-
wise it's use regularly. They propose to
continue these experiments
DIR. GatHng, of Hartford, Conn, has ar
ranged to build foundry in Philadelphia.
The proposed test of the new Gatling gun
new by virtue of a feeder which enables
/ il 20 fire 200 rifle balls per minute with
the precision, it is claimed, OF target
rihe-will be viewed by ordnance officers
of the United States army. About the
same time private tests will be made OF
the new gun in France, when, for the first
! time, the new copper cartridges, of whose
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